Apparatus for making a complexly patterned extrudate
US5639485A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | May 11, 1994 |
| Grant date | Jun 17, 1997 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 11, 2014 |
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- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA21C11/20
- WIPO fieldOther special machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Disclosed are apparatus (10) for making a complexly patterned extrudate. The apparatus (10) includes a food cooker extruder (12) for providing at least one extrudable food product, at least one food color supply (18), a pattern forming die (20) for mixing the food color and extrudate food product to form a complexly patterned food product, a reducing passageway for reducing the cross sectional area of the patterned dough from an inlet end (34) to outlet end (36) of at least 50:1 at an average convergence angle of .ltoreq.45.degree. and an extruder exit port at the discharge end of the reducing passageway.
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